Two things happened in 1997 and 2010

[Sysman]

You socialists will never understand - It's like trying to explain Quantum Physics to a baboon.

Oi! I'm not a socialist!

(and I love the way you sneer at "barrow boys", and then in the same breath complain about snobbery )

Snobbery from working class folk who have made it in life is the worst. My father was one of those.

And anyway. This is General. Do you really expect logic so late at night?

[DimPrawn]

Ah yes, subsidise everything and it will pay for itself in extra tax income.

The financial equivalent to perpetual motion!

Exactly!

Pay everyone to work in the public sector doing absolutely nothing, min salary £500K pa.

Voila!

No unemployment and benefits to pay and think of all the tax on those earnings!

Can I have my place in a left wing "think" tank please?

[MrRobin]

So why can't we subsidise those industries, the extra taxes from all those working men will pay for it

Ah yes, subsidise everything and it will pay for itself in extra tax income.

The financial equivalent to perpetual motion!

[Doggy Styles]

So why can't we subsidise those industries, the extra taxes from all those working men will pay for it

That's a clever idea, Gordon.

[Spacecadet]

One can't profit from "exportable goods", like coal, if (former) third world peasants can export them for a tenth of the price!

especially if you are hampered by bolshy sloppy work-shy workers as we were in the 70s, corrupted by decades of nationalised industry.

So why can't we subsidise those industries, the extra taxes from all those working men will pay for it

[OwlHoot]

I wouldn't get too excited about that. Thatcher with her naive upbringing of a grocer's shop and small town local government politics managed to devastate a lot of the country and send us on the route of being governed by London barrow boys rather than folks who made exportable goods.

Small town snobbery extracted one hell of a price from the country.

You socialists will never understand - It's like trying to explain Quantum Physics to a baboon.

One can't profit from "exportable goods", like coal, if (former) third world peasants can export them for a tenth of the price!

especially if you are hampered by bolshy sloppy work-shy workers as we were in the 70s, corrupted by decades of nationalised industry.

(and I love the way you sneer at "barrow boys", and then in the same breath complain about snobbery )

[Old Greg]

In 1997, Wilmslow went on a date and asked a girl out.

In 2010, he eventually got the message she wasn't interested.

Severe decomposition has that effect.

[MarillionFan]

In 1997, Wilmslow went on a date and asked a girl out.

In 2010, he eventually got the message she wasn't interested.

[Sysman]

1. New Labour came to power and then left.
2. UK workless households double in 14 years - Telegraph

Wow, another stunning Blair/Brown achievement!

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I wouldn't get too excited about that. Thatcher with her naive upbringing of a grocer's shop and small town local government politics managed to devastate a lot of the country and send us on the route of being governed by London barrow boys rather than folks who made exportable goods.

Small town snobbery extracted one hell of a price from the country.

[stek]

1. New Labour came to power and then left.
2. UK workless households double in 14 years - Telegraph

Wow, another stunning Blair/Brown achievement!

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1933 - 1939

10,000,000% inflation down to 0%

Unemployment down from 15% to 0%

Now that WAS a stunning Hitler/Goebbels achievement!

Als das Kind Kind war......

[DimPrawn]

1. New Labour came to power and then left.
2. UK workless households double in 14 years - Telegraph

Wow, another stunning Blair/Brown achievement!

s